depone

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Mr Melmotte had been asked to depone the title-deeds, and had promised to do so as soon as the day of the wedding should have been fixed with the consent of all the parties.

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  1. transitive verb To testify or declare under oath.
  2. intransitive verb To give testimony.

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  1. Middle English deponen, from Medieval Latin dēpōnere, from Latin, to put down : dē-, de- + pōnere, to put; see apo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Spanish deponer = Portuguese depor = Italian deporre, diporre = Dutch deponeren = German deponiren = Danish deponere = Swedish deponera, from Latin deponere, past participle depositus, lay down or aside, give in charge, intrust, Middle Latin also testify, from de, down, away, + ponere, lay, place: see ponent and pose, and cf. depose, deposit, etc.
 

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/dəˈpoʊn/
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